Nick Finan called the meeting to order at 9:05 a.m. and thanked everyone for participating.

Ethics ComplaintsNick reported the status of ethics complaints.

Ethics ArticlesCommittee members will provide ethical questions and answers (scenarios/responses) to Kim by September 15. They will be used for the monthly Ethics Corner in the TCMA newsletter. A meeting will be scheduled to discuss details for each issue. Nick and Kim will work with Ethics Committee Vice Chair Valerie Bradley and Matt McCombs, City Administrator, Aubrey on editing. Committee members Deval Allums, Vince DiPiazza, Philip Rodriguez, and Jeff Johnston also offered to assist.

Certified Ethics TrainersNick provided background and the status of certified trainers and ethics training for trainers. He also requested that committee members who have presentations of ethics training to send them to Kim to compile a library.

Advanced Online Ethics CourseNick provided a report on the status of the advanced online ethics course. Monthly newsletters previously written on each tenet is being used as the foundational material. Committee members Nick Finan, Curtis Schrader, Rolando Fernandez, and Mike Hodge are currently developing content for tenets 1, 2, and 3. Robert Hanna, Bob Hart, Hugh Walker, and Chad Nehring volunteered to assist. Bob will begin working on a video introduction to the course. Carol Buttler, Jared Miller, Andrew Fortune, David Moss, and Alan Barnes volunteered to provide case studies for the course as needed. Dion Miller volunteered to help develop the course beginning with tenet 4. Nick and Kim will meet to further discuss format and the software presentation capabilities.